Improvement in washing-lists



NITED STATES ATENT Orrroa.

GEORGE LAMB, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-LlSTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 61,886, dated April13, 1875; application filed February 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LAMB, of Boston, Suffolk county,Massachusetts, have invented cert. in llllplOVGlllGllbS in Vashing-Lists, of which the iollowing is a specification:

The purpose of this invention is to provide a convenient andimpcrishable tablet for recording the character and number of articlesof clothing sent to a laundry, and to avoid the time and annoyance nowrequired to write such list upon paper, my tablet being a permanentappendage to a dwelling or apartment, and requiring little time ortrouble to manipulate.

The invention consists of a fiat tablet, of any suitable material whichpractice may determine. and which, in use, may be suspended upon thewall of an apartment or placed in any convenient locality, this tabletto have engrossed upon its face a list of articles of apparel, and a rowor column of numerals irom one upward, according to circumstances, andbeing further formed with two ranges of small holes, and furnished withpins or marl:- ers to enter these holes, one row of such holescoinciding with each article on the list, and the other row coincidingwith the numerals, and the whole operating as hereinafter explained.

The drawing accompanying this specification represents a face view of myinvention.

In these drawings, A represents a flat tablet, which may be composed ofwood, porcelain, paper-board, or other material which practice maydetermine to be the most suitable, a hole, I), being formed in its upperpart, by which it may be suspended from a peg or book, if desired. Uponthe left of the tablet I engross or engrave a vertical range or col umnof words, representm g the various articles to be laundried, and Icreate in the tablet a series of holes, 0 c, &c., which coincide with,and extend opposite to the column or articles and the row of numerals.To the bottom of the tablet I add a ledge or box, 0, to receive the pegsand prevent their misplacement or loss.

The manipulation of my register will be easily understood. If a numberof skirts, for instance, are to be laundried, apeg is inserted in suchone of the holes opposite the word skirts as shall correspond with thenumeral which indicates the number of skirts-that is, if six skirts areto be laundried, a peg is placed in the hole below the numeral 6 andopposite the word skirts. Other articles are to be registered in thesame way when delivered to the laundry, and the pegs are to he sufferedto remain in the positions thus set until the articles are returned andcompared with such pegs, when the latter are withdrawn, and with thetablet may be stowed away in any convenient locality, or, if desired,may be left in the holes as permanent records.

I claim- A washing-list composed of a tablet, of suitable material,bearing upon its face a range or column of articles to be laundried, arow of numerals to register the number of each artiole sent, a series ofholes to correspond to or coincide with both the characters andnumerals, and finally a number of pegs or markers to operate with theholes, a box or ledge being added to the tablet to receive these pegs,and the whole being substantially as and for purposes stated.

GEORGE LAMB.

Witnesses FRED. CURTIS, W. E. BOARDMAN.

